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Isaac Asimov on Creativity
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A brief article featuring the late Isaac Asimov explaining the different means people develop & exercise their creativity:
Link: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531911/isaac-asimov-mulls-how-do-people-get-new-ideas/
6 lb gold nugget found in California
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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A 6 lb gold nugget found in Butte County, California, sells for around $400,000, around 4 times it's actual gold value (nuggets have a higher "curiosity" value and so sell for more").
Links: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-gold-nugget-sells-anonymous-buyer-20141027-story.html & http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/10/26/giant-gold-nugget-found-in-california-finds-secret-buyer/
- Thanks Ryan for that one
Note how the seller is keeping the location & his identity a secret. Smart man.
Nostromo
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm dreaming of some ancient celestial event, a comet, or meteor called Nostromo, that passed close to the earth in 1475. So close, in fact, that it's magnetism lifted into the air small keys and items of iron cutlery, carrying them with it until somewhere above the Arctic ocean it grew far enough away that it released them all, In the Arctic ocean now there's a giant mass of rusting keys dropped there by the passing comet, the history books are filled with accounts of this wonder, flickers in the clouds like lightening as it passes, people outside in wonder watching as their keys leave their hands and float momentarily in the air before being carried off....
The Virtual World
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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A small selection of some of the more interesting images captured from Google Streetview: http://9-eyes.com/?71e6fd90. Click on the camera on top to view the rest of the site, some curious content...
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